State News

The Burlington Police Department is investigating two deaths that are being called suspicious. Sometime between 11:30 a.m. and noon on Wednesday, the Burlington Police Department was called to do a welfare check at the 600 […]

An eastern Iowa nurse is accused of stealing pain medications from patients in her care at a nursing home. Thirty-one-year-old Katie Boll of Manchester is charged with thirteen counts of acquiring a controlled substance by […]

The Iowa State Fair will have 50 new foods available when the gates open in August. Spokesperson Mindy Williamson says they try to add some new foods each year. “I think our highest number yet […]

Iowa State University reports the school attracted 469 million dollars of funding from outside sources in the fiscal year that just ended. Iowa State’s vice president for research, Sarah Nusser, says that’s a drop of […]

A survey finds Iowa anglers fished for more than ten-million days last year, a big boost from about a decade ago. Jeff Kopaska, the DNR Fisheries research biometrician, says they surveyed more than 16-hundred random […]

The three presidential candidates who addressed a crowd of AARP members in Cedar Rapids today showcased the Democratic Party’s debate about how to achieve universal health care coverage. Former Maryland Congressman John Delaney suggests a […]

A triple-homicide is under investigation in Des Moines. Des Moines police were called to an apartment complex near downtown about 11 o’clock Tuesday night where three bodies were found in a single unit. The victims […]

Several funnel clouds and tornadoes menaced southwest Iowa’s Cass County Tuesday afternoon, but residents in a six-county area who rely on weather radio were clueless. The National Weather Service weather radio transmitter near Hancock, in […]

A new report on the economic impact of the horse racing industry on the state is positive, but cautious. University of Kentucky researcher Alison Davis conducted the study which shows the economic impact of horse […]

The state of Iowa has won a large grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to improve water quality. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says the federal funds will be used to construct wetlands. “This […]